Is Your Boss a Schmuck?

[Guest Jules]

the revolution to end this irrational economic system we live

Oh.

[Hixter]

where do you work man? what profession? just curious.

Satellite communications. It's the same thing I did in the Army 25 years ago.

[Vacant Horizon]

Satellite communications. It's the same thing I did in the Army 25 years ago.

cool.  thanks for the reply.  that seems like it could easily involve long hours.

[Hixter]

I worked 26 straight hours a few years ago. It doesn't happen very often.

[John Smith]

I also had a client who kept a stack of hustlers and penthouse mags in the public bathroom at their business.

 

Generally the bosses I have had have been fairly decent both in public accounting and in private industry.

[Sweet Papa Crimbo]

My boss is great. I have worked for the same organization for 28 years, and he is easily the best boss...and I have had some really good ones (as well as some turds on the road)

[Mr. Heartbreak]

I have had some good ones in the past, but not recently. One guy was younger than me (direct supervisor, not owner), and he was very cool.

 

My current manager hates the place too. She spends half her day complaining to me on Skype. It's a truly dysfunctional environment, but keeps limping along like a Third World country.

[SarahC]

The only thing that bugs me about my job is that I don't have just one boss. I have a director that's over our entire dept (only see him maybe 4 times a year). and then my supervisor (he basically makes out the month to month schedule for everyone and keeps us all on track with that, and then occasionally works a weekend), THEN i have about 6 or 7 people that are salaried and rotate taking turns assigning me and 2-7 other people (all of us that do what i do are part time) our various assignments/places to be.

 

it sucks big time because not one of the schedulers wants to do it, and there are at least 3 of us part-timers that would love to be brought on full time to gladly manage the floor activities. Alas, it's a non-profit and they're as cheap as it gets when it comes to benefits for employees/general employee well being (while on the clock). 

 

Years ago I volunteered to work an overnight tour type situation for some people that paid a lot of money to do it (I work in the tourist industry), and I tripped on the sidewalk and jacked my knee up real good. So the boss man (aforementioned supervisor in charge of monthly scheduling) begs me to continue working, and i'm fine with that. I finish the tour and it's time to go to bed (overnight means sleeping there), and boss man decides now that I did the tour i really should go home because my knee is fucked. So, pay check rolls around and instead of the flat $100 bucks they give me $30 even though I worked 4:30pm to midnight, and by rights should have made at least $80... needless to say I don't do those anymore. 

 

More than anything other co-workers kill me these days... I can handle the big wigs.A co-worker recently did something pretty awful to get one of her friends ahead in a job interview (basically taking pictures of interview questions and sending them to her friend... discovered this because she let me and another girl look at her pictures one day on break). Pretty gross and not cool. Luckily the girl didn't get the job, but my friend told the girl who owned the phone's boss about it and that girl shoulda been fired... blegh.

 

 I've been in the same job my whole adult life. Never been employed anywhere else besides this place, so I don't have much experience... BUT I am about to have to find something full time. I wish I could be employed to write, or at least be creative. This job is the same scripts over and over. I can narrate shows with my eyes closed now. 

[mountain bed]

I like about 90% of what my principal does. There are things he does that aggravate me, but I take it in stride because I have learned that the grass isn't always greener. I've never truly despised any boss.

This.

[Lammycat]

There are plenty of shitty principals and it's a big bonus when you get a good one. I've been lucky for vast the majority of my teaching career.

[The Inside of Outside]

I am 3 for 3 on having a good principals, and my current principal is the best of the lot. I did work for a headmaster at a private school who was not great, as I look back on it. But at the time, it wasn't horrible by any stretch. Interesting how important it can be to work with/for people who are good people, with solid core values (and a good sense of humor helps, too).

[Mr. Heartbreak]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/19/al-goldstein-dead_n_4472905.html

 

Somebody's ears were burning...

[bjorn_skurj]

Aww. A friend of mine actually worked for Al at one point. An odd boss, he reported, but not a schmuck and certainly interesting. He was not a happy man, Al - hope he finds more peace (or at least a hot piece) in the afterlife.